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Sam Altman and OpenAI’s board
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- 0:00Open AI's own board fired Sam Altman on
- 0:03a Friday. By Tuesday night, the board
- 0:05was gone. November 17th, a video call.
- 0:07Ilya Sutskever tells him he's out. The
- 0:09reason given, he wasn't consistently
- 0:11candid. No details, no warning. The most
- 0:14[music] valuable AI company on Earth had
- 0:16just fired its CEO. Then something
- 0:18nobody planned. Microsoft offered him a
- 0:20job. Then his staff wrote a letter. Over
- 0:23700 out of 770, 91%. They told their own
- 0:27board, "Bring him back or we all leave."
- 0:30By Tuesday night, the board folded.
- 0:32Altman was back. Three of the four who
- 0:33fired him lost their seats instead.
- 0:35[music] Five days. It's now valued at
- 0:37852 billion. He was fired for five days.
- 0:41The board that fired him [music] is
- 0:42gone. Follow Vibe Economies for more.
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